write a summary of the northern lights 15 marks
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A murder at an idyllic hotel in upstate New York… Clues left behind in love letters… It sounds like the heart of the story, right? But no, the real heart of this one is the narrator, a teenage girl named Mattie Gokey.
Mattie is working at the Glenmore Hotel when Grace Brown's body is found in the lake; her fellow boater, Carl Grahm, has gone missing. As Grace is brought into the hotel and laid out in the parlor, Mattie is stunned, because earlier that day, Grace gave Mattie a bundle of letters, along with instructions to burn them. Because of the unfolding events, Mattie has a hunch that her life is about to drastically change.
The whole novel moves back and forth between present and past. In the present, indicated by untitled chapters, Mattie struggles to make sense of Grace's death by reading Grace's letters. In the past, indicated by chapters titled with one of Mattie's words of the day, Mattie considers how she has come to the point she has in her life: working at the Glenmore Hotel and engaged to Royal Loomis. The two story lines merge when Mattie makes a pretty big decision at the end of her vigil over Grace's body.